Rehabilitation of the Mentally

• Published in: Andragoška spoznanja
• Main Authors: Zgonc, Špela, Kapelj, Marinka
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: Slovenian
• Published: Ljubljana University Press, Faculty of Arts 1996
• Subjects: Rehabilitation of the Mentally; Usposabljanje duševnih ljudi; Letom; sami
• Online Access: https://revije.ff.uni-lj.si/AndragoskaSpoznanja/article/view/6593; https://doi.org/10.4312/as.2.2.24-28

The Slovenian Association for Mental Health (Šent) helps the mentally ill to lead a better life than that possible during hospitalization. In Slovenia, the most frequent mental illness is schizophrenia. People from 18 to 42 years of age come to Šent in need of help but it is a fact causing most anxiety that almost one half of them is aged between 28 and 32 years which means that they are in the most active stage of life. Only a short visit to a psychiatric hospital tells one that this environment is highly non- stimulating and even discouraging for a patient, who sees him- /herself in the mirror of others living in a stigmatizing environ­ ment, which causes him/her to change the con­ sciousness about his/her own abilities. At Šent various activities are provided for them, e. g. foreign language courses, cultural events, excursions, sport activities, etc. For our members residential groups are organized in order to include persons unable to live by themselves. Each year a couple of campings and longer excursions are carried out, there is a group for self-help active, and our members are also being trained for easier jobs. Slovensko združenje za duševno zdravje (Šent) pomaga duševnim bolnikom, da zaživijo boljše življenje od tistega, ki jim ga ponuja hospi­talizacija. V Sloveniji je najpogostejša duševna bolezen shizofrenija. Po pomoč v Šent prihajajo ljudje med 18 in 42 letom starosti, zaskrbljuje pa poda­tek, da jih je skoraj polovica stara med 28 in 32 leti, torej v najbolj aktivni dobi življenja. Že kra­ tek obisk v psihiatrični bolnišnici nam pove, da je to okolje izrazito nespodbudno in obremenjujoče za bolnika, ki se opazuje v ogledalu drugih oseb v stigmatizirajočem okolju in tako spreminja zavest o svojih zmožnostih. V Šentu organiziramo tečaje tujih jezikov, obiske kulturnih prireditev, izlete, športne in druge dejavnosti. Za svoje člane orga­ niziramo tudi stanovanjske skupine, v katere vključujemo ljudi, ki ne zmorejo živeti sami. Vsa­ko leto pripravimo nekaj taborov in daljših izle­tov, organizirano imamo sk upino za samopomoč, prav tako pa svoje člane usposabljamo za manj zahtevna dela.